My buddy recently bought an entire Pog set at a garage sale or something. He had a 90s party and I'm like 10 years older than everyone there. Anyway, I told them all beforehand that I was a Pog master when I was a kid. We started playing and it got to my turn and I flipped the entire stack of Pogs over without scattering any of them. The whole stack of like 10 Pogs just flipped completely over. Everyone was showing mad respect at my Pog skillz.

Yes. Two people would put in however many (I can't remember how many to make a stack) and you'd take turns using your slammer to try and flip them over. Any you flipped over you got to keep. You could play for keeps too, which was like doing pink slips in a drag race only instead of cars it was with round pieces of cardboard.

A fad from the 90’s (at least in the US) using stylized cardboard milk bottle caps. They had tons of different art and images with some being more collectible than others. I don’t really recall many people actually playing the “game” itself but if I remember correctly you’d gather up all the participants’ Pogs, put them in a stack, then take turns throwing bigger, metal Pogs (called Slammers) at the stack. Something about how the Pogs flew around and landed determined points and eventually who won. I think the winner got to keep other people’s Pogs, similar to games involving marbles.

In middle school pogs were hot for a minute. We played all the time, but it lost its luster quick because of the nature of the game. Nobody wanted to risk losing their "cool" pogs, so everyone put in their lame ones and eventually nobody wanted to play anymore because it was just a bunch of generic pogs being passed back and forth.

Amusingly enough, the game most of us moved on to was Magic which almost suffered the same fate. In the early days of the game the official way to play was that each player had to risk a random card from their deck that the winner of the game would win.

I played Magic in Highschool and sold my collection when I graduated but kept three decks that I liked. Now 3 years after graduating I regret doing that because I found a new love for EDH. The best and only way to play Magic.

Pogs were massive when I was 10 in 1995. We would get in fist fights at recess. I had a huge brass slammer that had its own plastic container and must have weighed half a pound. Only after like 2 months did the teachers realize we were essentially gambling and put a stop to it.

Try the 50 v. 50 mode. You land with your whole team and it's a very casual gamemode. It's the kind of game you play when you want to relax, and if you're truly terrible at it just be a medic for your team!

If that's what you dislike, I recommend a change in play style. If you want fast paced fighting at the start, land at the first major point of interest directly underneath the bus's path. Tilted Towers usually has a lot of early fighting as well.

For me it was that and the combination of the fact that construction is so fast and shotguns are really powerful, so someone can just make a path of ramps as they run at me and then shotgun me in face before I can get in the 20 hits a rifle seems to take .

Socom II was the first online multiplayer shooter I played. Remember how you had to buy that bigass brick thing to plug into the back of the console just to be able to use it online? Ahhh the good ol' days... Until someone got in your lobby that was cheating so they were invisible, had unlimited ammo, never had to reload and would just run around destroying everyone shooting their gun 100x faster than anyone elses. Shit was so much fun

They're about to drop a HUGE update in the next month or two. New vehicles including a gyrocopter, jeep, and motorcycle (with the ability for multiple people to travel in one vehicle); new textures; new AI, new combat abilities; modded weapons; quest lines from the traders; 'dungeon crawl' setup POIs like churches/houses/whatever.

Looks really promising! They've reworked the whole health/wellness system too. I'm just trying to get the rest of the achievements for the wellness stuff done before they remove that system from the game.

I'm going hard on the meat stew and goldenrod tea. My biggest issues with getting to 200 wellness is waiting for my hunger/thirst bars to get low enough to be able to eat/drink again. Just sitting around waiting at this point.

I'm in my late 40s and just don't have time for video games like I did as a young man. I still play them sometimes, but I'm A) really picky about which ones I choose, B) play on easy mode every time (so I don't have to do levels over and over and over but still get the plot), and C) don't bother to hunt down every collectible unless I'm really getting into the game and feel like it's worth the time.

There are a lot of great games out there that have amazing storytelling, voice acting, and plot. They're more like a movie you play than a gamey-game. I'd recommend The Last of Us, the new Tomb Raider series, and the Uncharted series. A busy adult can still make progress through those games (on easy mode) without having to devote the next 10 months to mastering the controls.

Online games are fun sometimes but full of paradoxes. It's fun to play with other people but they sometimes make the game worse (trolling, griefing, spawn camping). Microphones make cooperation much easier but they also come with racist/sexist/homophobic trash talking. Worse yet are little kids – I'm not interested in playing with 2nd graders, especially in a game clearly for adults, like The Last of Us. Fortnite can be fun but the gameplay is a bit repetitive and there isn't much strategy, mostly run-and-gun and build like a madman. There are no character classes or builds, so you can't specialize in, say, stealth or healing or sniping. You just grab the best gun you can find and try to stay alive in the madness. Might be worth it to play once just so you know what the fuss is all about, but otherwise nah.

If you’re into the Last of Us and Uncharted, I would suggest you get yourself a copy of Horizon Zero Dawn. Great plot, scenery just as beautiful as Uncharted, gameplay that makes you think, and most importantly, robot dinosaurs.

I find the older I get, the more I like more slowly paced, subtle games. I'm a bigger fan of stealth games than ever before, and I love games that tell stories through the environment like Prey last year.

I'm the opposite I think. I want to play some of these awesome single player games that have come out lately (The Witcher III for example; seems to be the game of the century) but I just can't get into it anymore, not like I did when I was younger. I get my story needs met in books or movies I guess. For games I want the game:y part be good. Interesting mechanics, inventive ways to handle different situations, I want it to be fast paced and I want to have real people on the other end. I want mindgaming; faking and reading your opponent be a part of it.

See, I'm straight up middle aged, and I still enjoy video games. But I prefer not to play with a bunch of 12 year olds constantly questioning my sexuality. I'm still annoyed that the new Fallout will be online, as that's been my favorite series since the 90's.

Same with me. I don't know if video games have gotten worse or if my taste in video games has dried out. I even built a gaming rig in hopes of getting back into gaming but I rarely play games on it. Although I started playing Total War and I'm really enjoying that and I'm probably going to get Monster Hunter World.

Are you a publicly known professional or streamer? If not I don't know how you're getting swatted, or why any asshole big enough to do it would be motivated to try it on you. I understand not enjoying toxicity, but that's just an unreasonable thing to use as your representative example.

I understand not enjoying toxicity, but that's just an unreasonable thing to use as your representative example.

Yeah, you get it... I'm using hyperbole to explain how much I dislike the toxicity... and ya never know, what if I end up really good at a game? What if I just so happen to post a clip and it goes viral? You don't have to be a personality for not jubs to fuck with your life...

If you're being responsible and not leaking personal info you absolutely do. If you aren't a public persona how do people know where you live?

Edit: I have been drinking so I'd like to clarify that this is coming from a devil's advocate position. It's insane that this conversation is relevant to begin with, and nobody should have to deal with it amateur or pro.

Pogs were the shit. Hard to explain, but think of collecting Pokémon cards, except to battle, you stack them all up and throw a metal weight on top of them, then the ones that fly off the pile, you get to keep.

It’s a lot of fun to play with some friends. I played CoD like crazy when I was in high school and then stopped during college. Jumping on Fortnite with some friends is a good balance of fun and competitive for me.

Based on many definitions, yeah. Those born in 1980 are considered millennials. But some call it gen Y, and there are other names for the cusp years around the end of gen X and the beginning of the millennials.

Now, my joke that you didn’t get was that a millennial doesn’t really resemble a man, so much as a man-child. Obsession with pop culture and social media, as well as the trends OP mentions, etc etc... it’s a joke about behavior of millennials being unmanly, specifically because it is childish. That’s the joke.

i think the fact that op thinks people consider dabbing cool proves he's a crotchety old man. unless by youth he means 10 year olds in which case i'm not sure why he cares about preteen culture in the first place.

Thanks to your comment, I realized he meant dabbing like the dance move, not the weed. When you referenced 10 year olds I thought, Seriously? I knew kids started doing shit younger and younger, but that's just not right. Then it clicked.

When I worked at the movie theater I asked some of the high school kids what the dance move dabbing was and they explained to me it originated from people dabbing wax (referring to weed) and when you cough while taking the dab you put the inside of your elbow up to your mouth to cough and then that's how the dance move thing sorta started.

"American rapper Bow Wow attempted to explain the origin of the dab dance, saying it derived from the cannabis dabbers community, which started in about 2012, before the dance move. He was met with opposition from other rappers who immediately took to Twitter to insult him and disprove his claims.[6]"

Yeah, it was sort of a thing a few years ago in my old HS but no one does it anymore except the 5th graders at the summer camp I work for. I’ve seen I guess maybe half a dozen people do it in the last year, each time with a heavy layer of irony.

My vote is old man. I think the tell for me, people my age always talk about how much better cartoons were in the 90's. I went back and watched some cartoons from my childhood and realized they were just as bad as the ones on now. We all just remember them fondly because we were the target demographic when we watched them, and have some emotional attachment/nostalgia associated with them. And a bit of survivorship bias, the truly bad cartoons have been forgotten.

Case in point, my generation's version of dabbing was the macarena.

My vote is old man. I think the tell for me, people my age always talk about how much better cartoons were in the 90's. I went back and watched some cartoons from my childhood and realized they were just as bad as the ones on now. We all just remember them fondly because we were the target demographic when we watched them, and have some emotional attachment/nostalgia associated with them. And a bit of survivorship bias, the truly bad cartoons have been forgotten

Also we remember the great parts while forgetting all the terrible ones.

I have fond memories of Dragon Ball, but objectively the TV run was packed with filler episodes and sequences that made it a huge drag to watch.

However, now that I'm parent age, if I'm watching a new cartoon I'm also getting all the filler and stupid episodes, and I don't have the patience or youthful enthusiasm to just go along with it until the good parts come.

Dragon Ball Kai is a pretty great remaster of the series, with much of the filler cut out.

Huh, I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip.

Also, Dragon Ball Super was great, no matter how much the morons over at /r/dbz love to bitch.

Don't know if it's true, but I read somewhere that creator Akira Toriyama was motivated to create Dragon Ball Super because the live-action Dragon Ball movie was so awful (I haven't seen it). Like he had to save the franchise.

Don't know if it's true, but I read somewhere that creator Akira Toriyama was motivated to create Dragon Ball Super because the live-action Dragon Ball movie was so awful (I haven't seen it). Like he had to save the franchise.

Dragon ball super is great. It starts off actually kind of bad as it rushes trying to recap two movies worth of plot but then gradually gets better.

The last season of dragon ball super that aired in my opinion some of the best dragon ball and easily holds up to some of the best of DBZ that fans love.

I grew up with late-70s/early-80s cartoons, ranging from the Superfriends to Star Blazers to Thundarr the Barbarian to Thundercats, not to mention the reruns of Huckleberry Hound or the Flintstones. There's a certain kind of pain that comes with finding old episodes on YouTube and realizing how shitty all that stuff was.

Eh, I never liked the laugh track. Well okay, as a kid I didn't think about it really. But nowadays I wince at the canned laughter telling me when something is funny. It would be interesting to see Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? without the laugh track.

The hate the laugh track as well. It's annoying to be told when to laugh. Additionally, if I need a cue for when something is funny, is it actually funny? The humor and jokes should stand on their own.

Omg I love that episode. I used to hate on laugh tracks until I listened to Decoder Ring describe the history and the original purpose of the laugh track. It really opened my eyes and I now have a much greater appreciation for them.

We had some good cartoons in the 90s. But by and large the stuff today blows it out of the water.

Where today's cartoons fail is in volume and release schedule. We had shows that had 50+ episodes a season. We had shows with regular release schedules (new episodes every day for X weeks, beginning in the fall). Today it can be very difficult to stay on top of when the latest episode of X is coming out. There will be 4 new episodes for a week and then nothing for a month. Very strange.

I just posted pretty much the same sentiment: today's cartoons are friggin' great. But I never noticed the release issue, or how big seasons were. I guess I was okay with reruns back then. It didn't really matter, season-long story arcs just weren't a thing.

I am of your generation and you just made me realize I'm not a crotchety old man because I've always been crotchety. I hated the macarena when it was a fad (in fact, I realize now that I've hated most fads for my entire life. Hell, I still can't even stand pop music from any era)

I actually like some of the newer cartoons they've been putting out, like Adventure Time and Regular Show. They're a really solid mix of adult humor and kid humor, Adventure Time even tackles some interesting topics, and get down right existential at certain points (They've made more than one 'God is dead' reference, the whole show has these moments of legit existential crises, it's like a kid version of Rick and Morty), and Regular Show is basically just a stoner comedy with anthropomorphic animals. The need to appeal not only to children, but to a teen and parent audiences has really done some fascinating things to a few cartoons.

What were you watching? Gargoyles, cyber 6, dragon ball Z, biker mice from mars, batman, the justice League, x-men, pinky and the brain, the bugs bunny and tweety show, Tom and Jerry. All are re watchable. But yes, there are many things that are best left perfect in your memory.

There are some really good ones that are new too, Avatar: last air bender, adventure time. It's just we also see the shit come out too.
But younger children shows are ruined. There's no scary monsters, no villains, no overtly emotional or heavy scenes (eg: passing of a loved one) the worst is "Hey you weren't being nice! Here's how you can."

I think I definitely count as a crotchety old man, but holy shit cartoons nowadays are excellent. Better writing, better characters, much better animation, better voice acting. To find good quality in the past you need to go way the hell back to old Looney Toons from like the '40s/'50s/'60s. After that, they too started to suck.

How far back are we talking about? Sure every generation has its crap, but I loved replaying Super Mario World, Mario 64, Banjo Kazooie, Doom, and Wolfenstein 3D. They got graphics updates, but Oddworld New And Tasty and Shadowrun are awesome.

I watched a lot of Cartoon Network as a kid, but there were only a couple of shows that I liked. Shit like Jetsons, Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Tom Cat etc. was TERRIBLE to me. Dexter's Lab, Scooby Doo and Tom & Jerry, and then later on Powerpuff Girls and Courage was probably my favourite.

As an Enthusiast of animation and cartoons and somebody who grew up watching them in the 90s the reality is quality is quality regardless of when it was made. Some shows were definitely better than others there plenty of shows that are great now and others out now that couldn't hold a candle stick to certain shows from the past.

Youth trends are almost always stupid in hindsight. Dance of the month has been around forever (granted dabbing has more staying power) and Minecraft had/has the same annoying young fanbase, tho Fortnite is free so it's easier for kids to get into.

Instagram is no worse than Facebook imo (whatever your opinion of Facebook is). It's an unpopular opinion on Reddit for whatever reason but Snapchat filters aren't dumb and that's a hill I'm willing to die on.

I always love when i run into profiles with 5 dog-filtered face pictures, downward facing angles so as to hide the double chin, while showing nothing else about their body. Instant swipe left, saves everyone's time.

Covers part of your forehead, your nose, your mouth, and your chin and neck if the tongue part is there, and it's generally distracting. When you're looking at a dozen faces a minute you're not gonna stop and try to see past it. Plus it looks insecure to obscure a part of your face anyway.

To be fair though the dog one isn't as bad as some other ones people use because some of the other ones actually change with the person's face.

If you look carefully the filter actually "photoshops" the face, for lack of a better term. The chin is made narrower, the eyes larger and the nose smaller. Most Snapchat filters also alter the face in a similar way. This is why girls love them, they make your actual face look cuter

Ya it was hot in the dance scene for a minute as meme dances tend to be. Then died off real quick when it entered the general cultural vernacular before filtering down to the true youths. The only trend that seems to defy the rule of thumb of pre-teen expedited trend death is hype beast streetwear.

Yea it was open sandbox pages and lots of people learned basic html from it. Problem was, everyone is retarded and clicked and spread and copied malware and shit to their custom pages. Thats mostly what killed it i think.

Snapchat filters are okay, if used in moderation. You don't even know what girls look like anymore in real life. They add a +2 to their looks (1-10) with big eyes & flawless skin, so they just go fucking overboard with them. If I see a chick on tinder with nothing but filters that a left swipe from me.

You are creating a false dichotomy for yourself. You can not like trends and they can also be cool, but for other people. I don't like the idea of fortnite nor people who play it but I can recognize a lot of people like it, which is fine.

I agree. I really love knowing what my little niece and nephews think looks cool or what's popular in their grade. I can watch out for them if I see anything out of the ordinary. It's nice to know toy reviews on YouTube is what they love to watch and fortnite streams

Yeah it bothers me, how much people feel the need to shit on "youth trends" that are just normal things like Fortnite or Instagram. There's nothing wrong with these things even if you don't like them - there are many things I don't like but I don't feel the need to go around insulting them.

I saw a video of a child (genuinely looked about 5) doing a bunch of Fortnite dances while his parents and other adults laughed and seemed to be having loads of fun.

All of the comments were criticising the child and acting about how much better they were for not liking it. It was surreal. They were literally judging a 5 year old for liking a game, and a bunch of other people for having fun.

I don't like Fortnite BR (But I was interested in STW back when it was the main game) but I can see why people like it. Battle Royale isn't for me but people are having fun.

So if you judge people just because it's popular, then you're just a bitter person.

I'm 19 years old. And I don't have snapchat account and never will. All of my friends play Fortnite but I'm not Interested in Fortnite I do play games just not Fortnite. My girlfriend wants me to take pictures with filters but I just don't like it

Not quite, but I feel you. It is possible to love this time and still think there's some overly stupid trends. I love my smartphone, grew up without one, but I think dog filters are dumb on legitimate dating profiles as your only pic. I love gaming and I miss it daily, but between time and energy I just simply cannot play anymore, but I still think fortinight looks lame. Dabbing, I love going to clubs and drunk dancing, but I think doing a dab during a dance is weak. I hate our reliance on technology to put our pants on in the morning. At the same time I wouldn't be alive without modern technology and I also work in the tech field.

My point is, everything in moderation, ok so xyz is a trend, recognize that and realize that it won't define the rest of your life.... otherwise I'd still be saving beanie babies in garbage bags.

Life is too short to care about what other people think. I used to be one of those guys who would constantly shit on modern trends & music in particular, but I realized I actually like a lot of it. The parts I don’t have no bearing on the rest of my life.

If you’re a “social media influencer” and you post about getting a dubs on Fortnight while gossiping about celebrities, I’m definitely not your target audience but some folks are so keep doing your thing.

Yeah, I don't think this comment is appropriate in this case, and it only shows you're being a bit close minded to the my friend here.

He's simply saying that a lot of popular things, he's just not into. Which is a completely fine thing to say; it's an opinion after all.

It's like this, say he went to his grandma's and she made him oatmeal raisin cookies. He's not saying that he hates oatmeal raisin cookies, and wishes he could have some of great-great-grandma's chocolate chip. Instead, he's saying he's not fucking hungry.

Don’t feel too bad, honestly I was only saying it jokingly. It’s alright to not be interested in trends, it’s best for people to just be themselves and find what they’re interested in rather than what the collective likes.

No but honestly I am really so incredibly sorry for any offence I may have caused during my previous message directed towards you. I can assure you that I do not stand for the type of behaviour and that it will never, ever happen again.

Ok. I don't do cocaine and fucking get hungover every weekend posting on ten different apps and doing dumb ass dance challenges for likes.
But I'm "boring". Doesn't occur that people not into all this bullshit have lives instead of basic white girl cookie cutter Kardashian bs

I've always hated this stance. Not following popular trends = being boring.
I have experienced it first hand many times because I've never really liked anything that's popular. I'm not trying to be a contrarian or hipster, I just genuinely not like most popular things and prefer niche things.

Everything from music, activities, hobbies. I don't like them because they're unpopular, I would very much like it if the things I like were popular. That would allow the bands that I like to tour more often, perhaps come to my hometown once in a while, and I would have more people who share my hobbies.

All of those things I like are fun for me and many others, just not the majority I'm afraid.

the difference resides in if you have tried all those things and still not interested or if you are not interested only because everyone's on it, if you are the last one you are probably being a contrarian, which is similar to people that shame other people because they don't understand their things.

I'm 35, and I think snapchat/instagram/whateverthefuck are all just stupid apps that are basically popularity contests for people that still haven't left their high school mindset behind.

New school gamers suck because they all use youtube guides and walkthroughs because god forbid they actually think and figure out what to do next on their own. And Fortnite does suck.

DJs that can't match a beat without autosync aren't real DJs. Neither are the ones that don't use turntables. Taking parts of your favorite tracks, slapping them on some software and stitching them together isn't DJing. That's called editing.

Somewhere along the way, most human beings forgot how to express an emotion, feeling, or a thought without putting a fucking hashtag in front of it.

Wearing giant hoop earrings INSIDE your ear is fucking stupid.

All bands with 14 guys and a woman that plays a Ukulele suck.

Okay now I'm ranting and going off on my own...best to just stop.

Edit: Well thanks so much for the Gold kind person! Now get off my lawn!!! Damn kids....

Hey, DJing with a virtual turntable is how most DJs start. Actual turntables are too expensive to just buy when you're not sure whether you can do it profesionally. + song editing is a very useful tool, it lets you create your own DJ voice and style. Currently (at least in Latvia) songs that have lyrics from classic songs on newer beats is a loved-by-almost-all niche. (A great example would be Frank Sinatra's Fly Me to the Moon remixed by French sampler Cee-Roo). If you can remix songs, you already have a big bonus as a DJ because you can give something that nobody else can. Eventually, you may even become a producer which is a natural career advancement for DJs. Also, if you're talking about people making mixtapes, mixtapes can be very useful. Want to go to the toilet, but don't want to just queue songs? Then you better hope you have a short mixtape ready.

I just have a close DJ friend who is on this path, so I started a small counter-rant.

Yo...I shoulda been more clear. When I said actual turntable, I didn't mean just vinyl turntables. Digital turntables count too! My gripe is more with software stitchers. They call themselves DJs but there's no actual mixing. Using something like Ableton to edit the tracks you buy and then piecing them together by pointing and clicking is not DJing! If that's what you do, cool, but don't call yourself a DJ.

I don’t see why you’re all of a sudden a crotchety old man since you don’t follow the new trends. You just like what you like. I can let people follow those trends and not get bitter about it when I don’t want to. I just like other things than what is popular.

I had to think about this question for a bit. As a genuine "Old Man", I feel qualified to answer. I think young men get a bad rap they don't deserve. We had just as many lazy guys, you have kids who mooch off mom and dad and we had draft dodgers. I did opium in Vietnam, used to freebase or chase the dragon to cope. Many self-medicate because of several reasons, we all know what they are. You guys have been let down just like my generation on these issues. I take opioids again, bone cancer from 9/11 or Agent Orange who knows. I don't really care it doesn't change anything but who pays for the headstone.

Music is one area I'm shocked about. I actually realise I like shit that lasted long enough that it came back to me. My grandson and fosterson and I went to NIN and Soundgarden, Stone temple pilots and The Offspring. The boys love my CDs then they started to go through my records. They didnt realise, I saw the Stones when they didn't have handicapped plates on the plane.

Things like dabbing the boys had to explain to me. I dont get it, maybe Im not cool enough but they think its stupid too so I dont feel so bad. As my fosterboy says "fuckin dumb waste of time". They don't like MLP or most of the furry stuff.

We both like fast cars and turning wrenches. I was and they are O.K. students, they are fumbling with girls and trying to be the man. As long as they are respectful and the young lady is treated like the person she is Im glad for them. After all the thinking Im glad things are they way they are, of course it could be better but damn it really could be so so much worse. You young cats and we old cats aint got it so bad.

Everytime I topic like this comes up I try to get people to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD0x7ho_IYc It's like 20 minutes long, but it's so good, and puts all these types of things into a really interesting light.

Current youth here. I've been debating this question with myself for a while. I've convinced myself I'm a mix of both lol.

I've always found things like dabbing, and now Fortnite dances, to just be stupid.

I've heard many people both IRL and on Reddit compare Instagram to Facebook, so I've never bothered with it. As for Snapchat, things like streaks, filters, and me being camera shy to begin with are turn offs for me.

Fortnite is just whatever tbh. It's popular, free, and accessible. I played a handful of matches with friends to see what the fuss was about, and just ended up thinking the game was average. I have other, and imo better, games to play.

I was out of country for 2 years and had pretty minimal exposure to American culture. Then I magically came back here and rappers have rainbow hairstyles and stupid face tattoos; kids are dabbing; landing a water bottle on a table is an accomplishment; and something called musically is entertaining tweens. I personally think its all pretty stupid, but I'm also the generation of JNCO jeans, super saggy pants, the superman dance and a bunch of other stupid trends that I'm sure looked idiotic at the time.

So yea, I'm pretty sure it's just a matter of becoming and old man with different preferences

Nothing like playing against retarded bots who will stare at you for minute at a time awaiting you to notice their presence. First game got a chicken dinner with 16 kills. The game is so boring on mobile I uninstalled it instantly. I don’t even think I got shot that whole game.

I think it depends on how you act on it. In my opinion, just thinking the act itself is stupid is fine but when you don’t let other people enjoy things is when you start creeping into crotchety old man territory. Is it stupid or do you dislike people enjoying things? I think that’s the deciding question. (Don’t get me wrong, I think a lot of current fads are dumb also)

As a teen, I don’t play fortnite (and I do enjoy games it’s just, well, bad) don’t have socials, and dabbing is purely irony at this point. Along the lines of “ha I turned in an assignment 6 and a half weeks late” absolutley fucking SHREDS the dab

I am 20. Never dabbes in my life(the dance move thing. Ive taken a couple dabs tho). Ive never cared about posting puctures of myself online, on facebook, instagram, any of that, nor have i used any filters to do so. I have also never played fortnite. And i never tend on doing Any of that. It doesnt make you old, it just makes you an idividual. You have enough sence that you know those arnt things you want to be a part of, and your making your own choices, instead of trying to follow the trends like everyone else. If anything, it shows more that your mature, not old. And im gunna bring up cartoons like others. Yeah, cartoons were sometimes stuoud always, but they really have gone down hill. I mean, Cartoon Network for example, had WAY more shows then than they do now. And the 3 or 4 they have now arnt the best. I meam you cant watch even a single episode of Teen Titans and watch and episode of Teen Titans Go and say they are both just as stupid. Honestly, the more advanced we get as a society, the more i think we lose touch with the simple things.

There are no crotchety old men. Because its true all youth trends are stupid and kids are stupid. Even when you were a kid the guys you thought were crotchety old men were actually right and the trend you were into was stupid. People get smarter when they get older.

If you're accussing the youth of moral failings for liking things you don't like, or dressing weird, or listening to music that just sounds like parrots fighting, then you're being a crochety old asshole.

If you're accepting that trends and styles change and the youth will obviously like different things and you're okay with that then you're still okay.

Because it’s fan base make it that way. Just like Minecraft. Solid game that’s actually kind of fun with friends. Ruined because of the sheer amount of kids that play. Fortnite now you got the same thing.

Think of some equivalent fads from your youth, and ask yourself if you thought they were stupid.
Dabbing - think of a trendy dance from your youth, like the twist, MC Hammer dance, macarena, etc.
Fortnite - Did you enjoy Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, Goldeneye, half-life, etc?
If you enjoyed them, but dislike their analogues, you're probably a crotchety old man. If you hated them, you're probably not interested in those areas. If you generally dislike most things, then you're probably a curmudgeon.

I'm 24. I have an irrational hatred of dabbing, insta sucks ass, snapchat I have where I used to snap one friend and I don't even anymore and fortnite I've played since it came out on the Nintendo Switch but I've stopped playing that now, there are loads of games way better imo.

I hate all of the above mate. Including Snapchat itself and all of social media such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Twitter to me is just the pinaccle of sadness for anyone. Like the POTUS even bitches on that app and HE'S THE PRESIDENT.

I’m 34. It only gets worse. I went to the YouTube home page and looked at the amount of views that were for rap videos, pop videos, and toy videos and said, “is YouTube just for 12 year olds? And why are they retarded?”

Easy, current youth trends are actually just stupid. Everyday with these folks it’s a new trend. When I was growing up through school we were lucky enough if we got a new trend every 4-5 months. We mostly just overused old sayings and shit.

Part of being an adult means knowing when not to put importance on trends. Maybe some you enjoy can be nice but most of them aren’t worth it. Just let the kids have fun with what they enjoy, and figure out what you enjoy, and have fun with that.

Nah, I'm 20 and agree in thinking youth trends are stupid. IMO Instagram and Snapchat are pointless and I dont understand why they are popular. Wouldnt it be better for people to just upload photos to Facebook where they will get more likes because its userbase is much bigger?

To me Fortnite looks like a cheap, amateur cartoon knockoff of PUBG although I'm the only one of my friends who doesnt play it. Like the knockoff League of Legends games you see advertised on anime websites

You're becoming a crotchety old man. Unlike what you're inclined to think, you're not any different than your parents or their parents before them, in that you judge the next generation by the standards you expect based on your own experiences as a kid. Accept the fact that your judgement of what is smart or dumb for kids to be doing is extraordinarily biased towards what you did as a kid and give them a break.

Fortnite is a shitty game, like COD or any other mindless shooter. The dab died when Cams bitch ass looked at the ball and didn’t dive on it during the super bowl. Snapchat and Instagram are ok, I just don’t have anything to post.

I don’t think you’re an old man. I find fortnite to be somewhat fun but mostly frustrating; I’m not a fan of snapchat or Instagram, filters and app; and all the recent dance moves, especially dabbing, are the most cringe worthy things. So, a 17 year old agrees with you.

If you think the tends are stupid because they're stupid that's ok. If you think they're stupid because you have age and experience revealing how transitory and possibility embarrassing they will be in a few years then you're old and crotchety.

Everyone’s different and find preferences within current trends, but I do agree with you on these trends being stupid. I’m not finna jump out the car dancing to Drake for a couple views, but I guess finding humour in anything makes things worthwhile. Just don’t take life too seriously, and yes we are getting older by the minute so tastes normally change. Remember planking?

As long as you comfortable with yourself you’ll be alrighttttt. Peace.

Current youth trends are just stupid, I’m the same way I’m only 20 and they don’t interest me either. I had Snapchat and twitter and Facebook since 2011 but I’ve slowly started fading out of those apps because of how ADs have taken over and stupidity of people posting things.

It's okay not to like stuff, just as it's okay to like it. Most trends are stupid, but being stupid can be a lot of fun. I think dabbing is kinda funny, don't like snapchat and never tried instagam. Fortnite is just some game I'm not particularly interested on.

If you are complaning and looking down on people for enjoying stupid shit you don't enjoy, you are a crotchety old man. Defining yourself on the things you dont like is also an overall bad idea. Otherwise, just do whatever you want and don't worry much about it.

A lot of things people do are stupid and arbitrary but it’s the way people connect with the times. You can be the judge of what’s good and what’s bad but don’t lump all pop culture together. There’s good and bad but it’s a good way to be in tune with the way the world is at that moment.

A lot of stuff is just stupid. But don't blame the youth. It's because pop culture has been successfully corporatized, at least in the mainstream. Whenever a safe meme appears, somehow it winds up getting amplified by some PR interest. From what I can tell, most teenagers only like this shit ironically, and the only people who think dabbing is legit cool are like, 10.

Stuff has also always been stupid. I remember when I was younger I cringed at Soulja Boy the moment I heard the song and saw the dance, and shutter shades struck me as more of a tacky novelty item than a serious fashion accessory.

Finally, there is a re-emergence of a strong underground culture. The mainstream is hideously saccharine, so there is an edgy underbelly that contrasts the white-bread eating crap. Shitpost culture is basically the beatnik movement to facebook's clean cut rockabilly. Sure, there was controversy over rock, but that stuff is sterile compared to what was going on underground, at least from what I care to understand. The good stuff isn't safe to put on tv or in music.

I mean I’m 19 and I think these trends are kinda dumb. I like Snapchat and I dab ironically as your typical college hipster wannabe does. But only if I dealt 420% damage to my siblings while we play smash. Actually I might just be a loser

My nephew is 13 and is into trends, tech ones specifically. Somehow he manages to find these things and then, MONTHS later, I find out it's a thing. But by that time these things are old news to him and when I reference them he rolls his eyes like I'm an idiot.

Yeah, OP, I can relate. I'm becoming a crotchety old lady. No shame in our game!

Dabbing is the stupidest thing. Snapchat filters are annoying, unless you have a 3 year old daughter. In which case, they're awesome. Instagram, I love, expect for the hoes who think they're shit don't stink. And fortnite is overrated beyond anything out there.

Maybe I'm turning into a crotchety old man with ya, but most trends these days are moronic compared to the ones I had growing up. Also, I'm 30 and nothing beats the 90s

Dabbing’s been gone except in forms of sheer irony since 2016. the future is now, old man

I think the face filters thing is really a guys thing, not so much as an age thing. I see 40+ year old women using snapchat face filters, whereas I havent seen a guy willingly use one unless he’s overheard a girl who’s pants he’s trying to get into say “omg guys look so much cuter with this filter”, at which point they hop on & get to it.

Fortnite is a kiddy twist on a solid, fun concept. If you’re looking for more of a mature vibe, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is the same game but with a more militarized & realistic, less cartoony and child-moderated feel.

I’m 25 years old and while I get what you’re saying, I think it’s pretty shitty to throw on instagram and fortnite as ‘current youth trends’ and then calling it stupid. One is just social media and the other is a video game. I play fortnite and I actually enjoy jumping on and chatting with my friends while we play games, fuck you if you think I’m stupid because I’m doing something I enjoy with my friends.

Im 21 and I ask myself the same question. But at 21 you clearly dont qualify for an old man. I really do believe we have reached some sort of pinnacle for stupidness in trends. Maybe the pinnacle is evergrowing though and it will just get worse.

I have a scar on my arm because we used to heat up lighters really hot and then brand ourselves with them for fun. Same thing with lit cigarettes. There's also a bridge over the lake in our town that we used to jump in even though it was so shallow you smash into the ground hard as fuck.

Kids always do stupid shit for fun, I hate when people look down on the new generation of shit like they're so fucking superior. People talking shit about kids today having dreads and shit probably had a bowl cut when they were 14.

That stupid thing people do with their arms called dabbing is not what dabbing really is. That whole thing probably started because someone coughed so damn hard from a hash hit that they did some dumb shit with their arms. Real dabbing I’m down, the stupid dance/arm thing is just ridiculous.

The mark of realizing you're old is that the kids do things that when you were a kid would get you mocked or even beaten up but it's the popular trend for them and you kind of hate them for being so dumb

I don't dab, I don't vape. I don't use snapchat, instagram, or facebook. Today's youth I cannot relate. Everybody is so glued to their phones. I just scan my environment and just snicker at it. It's like looking at a bunch or robots programmed a certain way as far as behavior. It cracks me up. "look at the fuckin robot glued to their facebook". Maybe I'm just old, or maybe I'm just lame

Imo more old people are addicted to Facebook than the youth, they’re much more about Instagram, Snapchat, and twitter right now.

I used to hate the sentiment of people who’d say ‘this technology is ruining the younger generation’ but I’m becoming more and more convinced it’s a real problem. Just something that comes with age I guess.

I dab ironically, I don't mind Snapchat (thought I don't use filters and I don't really care if anyone does) as I usually use it make really stupid jokes. (A few days ago I made one where I put an IP address on a picture of an elephant while saying (im paraphrasing) "nobody has ever actually addressed the elephant in the room until today". I don't mind Instagram either as its really the only place where I can see glorious photography unfettered. (I like looking at excellent pictures of nature / mocs / my friends' hjinks).

I don't like battle Royales so I exist very far away from Fortnite.

Its not that you're old nor is it that kids are dumb. they're just kids. Myself included despite the fact that I am 22. I wanna have fun.

I'm never sure if dabbing refers to the dance move, or smoking highly concentrated THC. If it's the latter, I love dabbing.

If it's the dance move: I saw a teenager at an arcade (Round 1) on a DDR machine, and dabbed the hardest dab I've ever seen in my life. It was the most embarrassment I felt for someone else. I'm sure many people felt the same way towards younger me when I used to fist pump like it was the coolest thing in the world.

I find fun in taking these pop references and really learning about them just by looking it up online and seeing some popular people make an example of it. Then take my young sister out and brutally embarrass her like the good older sibling I am.

Being young and dumb is unironically liking these trends. Being young and smart is ironically liking these trends. Being a crotchety old man is not being able to tell the difference. Source: I dab on snapchat while playing Fortnite.

Maybe neither. You're probably not a crotchety old man, but you're just not a kid that finds passing trends that are only trends because they are trends interesting. You're old enough to not care what everyone else is doing. Do you know how many of these stupid things my kids do just because everyone else does? Half the time when I ask them what it means, they have no idea. At a certain age, our time is too valuable to waste it with things that don't hold any real value.

Some trends are stupid some aren't, you got to look at yourself and the trend itself and work out is it simply you don't understand it (think instagram) and haven't the time in or is it just a shallow trend (think fidget spinners). If you blanket them all as stupid then your getting old and grouchy and that aint a fun way to live, relax and just dont take all too seriously is my advice.

For your examples dabbing is a shallow trend and will be gone in a year maybe two. Snapchat filters are a dumb laugh and will be around a while as its an easy photoshop for a lot of people and they are occasionally funny. Instagram is the new trendy social media there's no way around it, its like twitter with pics and videos with a fresh feel and currently without the spam, deadweight and clickbait propaganda that facebook has and it has facebook money backing it to take over from facebook with the youth it aint going away anytime soon. Then for fortnite I don't get the hate, its a very good free FPS game with multiple modes, free updates, free DLC map packs, a dev team that actually try to fix stuff (yes it sometimes backfires) and the micro transactions are only to unlock challenges and non pay to win cosmetics, its basically what reddit has screaming for for years now, but what its colourful and fun looking with kids playing so clearly its bad.

I don't even know what dabbing is lol. I don't have instagram or Snapchat and I've never played fortunate. There is so much more to life than those things. Don't worry, your probably happier then most people who are obsessed with those things. And I'm 26 so not that old.

I’m 25 and can’t stand all that crap, in fact, I honestly hate most things that my generation seem to love -.- Fortnite is stupid so are Snapchat filters, this new Kiki thing where they walk beside a moving car? Gets me riled up whenever it pops up... seriously wtf happened

I know I’m being an old man about Fortnite. It is the ultimate evolution of what started in the mobile industry and eventually infected all gaming platforms; a shallow, repetitive, free to play game where the only difference between players is how cool you look by buying stuff. Like many games that look great on twitch, it’s really
not that fun without a chat or squad to interact with.

I’m not saying every game needs to be this rich, story-driven artsy game with no DLC, content or cosmetic, but the popularity of Fortnite is a microcosm of where the AAA gaming industry is headed, and it’s far more interested in customer retention and gaming as an indefinite service than it is in making GOOD video games.

Why even pay attention to the stuff? I'm 28 and I tried Fortnite and decided it wasn't for me. I'm just not in to online games. I don't think it's stupid. I remember older people believing things like WoW and Pokemon were stupid. Never played Wow though, but loved Pokemon as a kid/teen.

Currently 20 and I don't like those things either. But I "get" them, especially with fortnite, since it's a game targeted to multiple generations and first mobile/console/pc game with crossplay. I think it's great, but I hate the gun mechanics.

I rather think it boils down to generalizing and hating all stuff for the youth.

I only use reddit now. Check twitter for 5 minutes a day before I want to get off. I scroll through IG for 5 minutes to see nature/travel photos and see friends/family updates. Don't have FB. Don't use Snapchat.

I'm an old soul. I like to be as analog as possible in our now digital world.

I am assuming you are serious. Personally, as a crotchety old man, I have to say, it isn't so bad. You see past a lot of the inane things people value.
What I have to watch out for is when I start to get cantankerous. Then I know that I need to go exercise or get laid or something.
Think of it more as advanced maturity. :)
Seriously, as long as you can still laugh at things and feel joy, you are fine.

As a 16 year old who is viable to like these things, I don’t, and many of my friends don’t. If I am dabbing I am certainly doing it ironically/as a joke and yeah fortnite is a good game, but I prefer other games so I don’t play it. I never use snapchat filters or Instagram either as I don’t see the point or appeal. A LOT people just like these things, which is fine, and just because they are popular does not mean you should put yourself down for not liking them in favour of other things. Personally I have no idea where dabbing came from and that it’s stupid, which is why I find it funny when I ironically dab as part of a joke. To sum up, if you don’t like something, it’s fine, just respect different people like different things and you are not becoming a crotchety old man.

Just ask "who does it hurt?" and not in an existential metaphorical "the kids are hurt by the dumbening down of societies morals etc." but more "is anyone actually hurt by these people enjoying the thing they like"

15 y/o male here. Fortnite is fun, but I don’t play it a lot (your ok there). Dabbing is used sarcastically now (you don’t understand dabbing at all, we’re getting into old man territory). The red flag is you not liking Snapchat. That shit is super fun. Filters instantly make you look more attractive, you can talk to people without the constantly bringing up old crap you said, and you can have group chats with people who have both Apple and Android phones.

You're a crochety old man. Trends never change, they are always an inside joke for the people who spend the time to learn them. If you don't feel like spendin the time to learn them then they don't speak to you and seem stupid.

It's not a complex concept...trends seem stupid to people who don't understand the context, if you take the time to learn the context they are usually fun. I guess being an abrasive nuisance is more important than reading comprehension to you.

It’s those god damn kids and their god damn picture boxes fucking everything up for the rest of us. Maybe if they concentrated more on getting a job and contributing to society we wouldn’t be worried about Communism or the price of the dollar.